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The Salieri-Morello War was a major conflict that took place in May 1935 in Lost Heaven.
History[]
The war was between rival Mafia crime families Salieri and Morello. In 1921, when Don Peppone was murdered, his capos Ennio Salieri and Marcu Morello divided his empire and became Dons in their own right. Salieri and Morello gradually fell out with each other, leading to a "cold war" of sorts. Morello would constantly antagonize Salieri and take "bites" out of his rackets, albeit never attempting an outright war with him.
Over time, Salieri and Morello set up lucrative bootlegging, gambling, prostitution and various other rackets, both legal and illegal, in their territories, gaining incredible wealth and power while building strong alliances with the corrupt political and civic leaders of Lost Heaven through payoffs and gifts.
In the mid-1930s, Morello ramped up his efforts to destroy the Salieri family and take complete control of Lost Heaven, culminating in an attempt to have Don Salieri killed in public. The hit failed, and the Salieri and Morello families went to war. Don Salieri's careful planning slowly whittles down Morello's resources.
Shortly thereafter, Morello's associate, the City Councilor Roberto Ghillotti, was killed during his speech at his birthday party aboard the Lost Heaven Queen. Morello's younger brother Sergio Morello was also killed during the war, and eventually Morello himself was killed by a hit crew led by Tommy Angelo. In the end, the Salieri crime family won the war and the Morello crime family became extinct.